WTAE Channel 4 took the top honor at the Mid-Atlantic Emmy® Awards Ceremony for Overall Excellence. Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 Chief Meteorologist Mike Harvey won the Emmy® for Anchor-Weather. WTAE Channel 4 was also awarded Emmys® for its feature news report “Danger on the Field: Unanchored Soccer Goalposts” and the Community Service award for “WTAE-TV project Bundle-Up.”

“We consider it an honor to serve the communities we call home,” said WTAE President & General Manager Charles W. Wolfertz III. “The entire staff at WTAE Channel 4 is humbled to be selected for the coveted Overall Excellence award.”

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Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 News Director Jim Parsons added, “I am proud and grateful to our team of reporters, photographers, editors and producers. Each of our team members are committed to providing our communities with the best news coverage – each and every day.”

This year, the Mid-Atlantic Chapter received a record 862 entries in 78 Emmy® categories, the awards honor excellence in television news, programming and individual achievement in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and parts of Ohio.

The 2016 Emmy® awards arrive after WTAE Channel 4 was recognized for several other prestigious industry awards. This year WTAE Channel 4 has received the George Foster Peabody Award, six regional Edward R. Murrow Awards including Overall Excellence, five National Headliners Awards and thirteen regional AP awards.

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WTAE is a digital multi-media company providing news, weather, sports, information and entertainment content on WTAE Channel 4, WTAE.com, and thisTV Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 is honored with prestigious broadcast journalism awards including the Peabody and Edward R. Murrow Award. Pittsburgh’s Action Weather 4 is Western Pennsylvania’s most recognized weather forecast provider and is available on air, online, and on smart phones. WTAE Channel 4, the ABC station in Pittsburgh the nation’s 23rd largest market, is owned by Hearst Television, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hearst, a leading media company whose global holdings include 30 local television stations and two local radio stations.

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